changing Palm Wireless Keyboard's driver to do Dvorak-Keyboard layout

[steak]

Hello everyone,
I'm about to purhase a Palm Universal Wireless Keyboard and it looks
like it doesn't come with an easy way to swtich from qwerty keyboard
layout to dvorak keyboardlayout. So I think I must do some
under-the-hood modifications. I'm no programmer, but in my desperation,
I'm willing to do the work.

How would you go about changing the file? What editor do i use to do
the changes? And where in the file should I look? Do you recommend that
I just dowload some freeware editor? Or will using some Palm Developer
tools be necessary or more efficient?


I uploaded the prc file into my website for easy downloading.
http://kb.snowflames.eml.cc/Keyboardv108.prc

In addition to responding to this post, feel free to send me a copy of
your response via email.


looking forward to hearing from all of you!

[woohooo]

i'm not sure how helpfull this would be to you but maybe you'd like to take a look. "http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/pilot/prc-format.html"

[pruss]

Hello everyone,
I'm about to purhase a Palm Universal Wireless Keyboard and it looks
like it doesn't come with an easy way to swtich from qwerty keyboard
layout to dvorak keyboardlayout. So I think I must do some
under-the-hood modifications. I'm no programmer, but in my desperation,
I'm willing to do the work.

How would you go about changing the file? What editor do i use to do
the changes? And where in the file should I look? Do you recommend that
I just dowload some freeware editor? Or will using some Palm Developer
tools be necessary or more efficient?


I uploaded the prc file into my website for easy downloading.
http://kb.snowflames.eml.cc/Keyboardv108.prc

In addition to responding to this post, feel free to send me a copy of
your response via email.


looking forward to hearing from all of you!

I suggest you use a binary editor like xvi32 and look for obvious things like 'qwerty" or 'q w e r t y' in the driver (look both by eye and in an automated way).

This assumes you have a way around the EULA.

[palmem]

It is possible to do this with a hex editor

What I am wondering is, would this file be illegal to post, assuming someone did it?

-palmem